Two of Swords

Rogue (Dual Wielding)

Significance: This one’s an obvious one, as it’s the Class selection for a Rogue wielding two daggers. How many daggers? Two! It’s quite literal, if you ask me.

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The card itself represents: Partnership and affiliations, bonding, compromise and negotiation, a balance of opposites, temporary solutions, diplomacy, hidden tensions and uncomfortable truces, conservation, patience, debate, etc.

Reversed: Overturned agreements, duplicity, sabotage, subterfuge, malice, indecision, adverse judgement, contradiction, efforts frustrated, lies and deceit, delusion, emotions dominating logic, inept communication, loss of equilibrium, etc.

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Clad in stripes of nightly blue, the rogue keeps a watchful eye, draped in a cloak to keep himself hidden in shadow, circles marking the flow of life he ends; his companion is stealth. He wields two daggers, once in each hand; one curved like a serpent that slithers unnoticed towards its prey; the other zig-zagged like a bolt of lightning that strikes so suddenly a killing blow. Twilit stars in his beard, a wave of red like blood behind him, with a moon full as the darkness that engulfs his enemies. Another dagger is drawn out on his pointed boot; he always has more, another hidden knife, ready to strike in the night.

What I think this means for DA: Other than the obvious, that it’s going to be a Class option, it gives us a warning, that like an assassin, surprises will creep up on us, and if ill-prepared, could render us incapable. It could also mean we might see more of the Game, which is quite cloak and dagger, with bards and harlequins.